Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-10-31:	My thoughts on why invented standards succeed or fail The risk continuum for standardization success
2009-10-30:	Understanding hash length extension attacks
2009-10-29:	Why per-process (or per-user) memory resource limits are hard
2009-10-28:	Python modules should make visible their (fundamental) types
2009-10-27:	A personal experience of web browsers making bad text editors
2009-10-26:	What I think I understand about how standards get created
2009-10-25:	Some thoughts on a 'modern' university email system
2009-10-24:	Something I have realized about university services
2009-10-22:	The limits of some anti-spam precautions How to waste lots of CPU time checking for module updates
2009-10-21:	Why you should be able to get a list of your local email addresses
2009-10-20:	Simple mailing lists: an illustration of Exim's flexibility
2009-10-19:	The case against backup MXes
2009-10-18:	Backup MXes versus redundant MXes
2009-10-17:	Automated web software should never fill in the `Referer` header
2009-10-16:	A tale of network horror, or at least excitement
2009-10-15:	One complexity of buffered IO on Unix
2009-10-14:	Why 'invite-your-friends' features are spam from you, not your users
2009-10-13:	There are two different uses of conditional GETs
2009-10-12:	ZFS GUIDs vs device names
2009-10-11:	Why security bugs aren't bugs
2009-10-10:	You should delete obsolete data files
2009-10-09:	A fun bug I once ran across
2009-10-08:	What is going on with faulted ZFS spares
2009-10-07:	A brief introduction to ZFS (disk) GUIDs
2009-10-06:	The danger of software suspend on servers
2009-10-05:	The problem with security bugs is that they aren't bugs
2009-10-04:	Why Unix filesystems precreate `lost+found` directories
2009-10-03:	One thing that top-posting is good for
2009-10-01:	The rules for combining things with Bourne shell 'here documents'

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